Yunnan has a pleasant climate and rich products, which is especially suitable for the survival of animals and plants, so it is called "the kingdom of animals and plants". Tropical, subtropical, temperate and cold temperate plant types are distributed, and there are many ancient, derived and exotic plant species and groups. There are also many kinds of fruits in Yunnan, which are fresh and sweet.
In addition to the common bananas, pomegranates and pineapples, there are many rare fruits in the mountainous areas of Yunnan, a large part of which we have never eaten or seen, and even less in other places. Many of them are unique to Yunnan. Let's take a look at them together.
Rare fruits in Yunnan:
① Garlic moss
Suanjiao is mainly distributed in Jinghong, Menghai, Mengla, Simao and Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous Counties in Yuxi, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and is known as the "Oriental Shenshu". Suanjiao is one of the most exotic fruits in Yunnan. Zizyphus jujuba is called "Han Mu" in Dai language. It looks like a bean, not like ordinary fruit at all.
The color of sour horn is brown-black, the taste is divided into sweet and sour horn and common sour horn, and the appearance is different from hard black red and soft yellow. It can be eaten as pulp, and can also be made into candy and drinks.
② Loquat
Loquat, also called wild sweet potato, is a kind of wild fruit in Yunnan, but it is not common in the market. Fortunately, I occasionally meet them in the market. All children in the countryside have this experience. When I was a child, if I met the stem and leaf of loquat, I would definitely turn it over and find the fruit. If they find one, they will be very happy and can't wait to send it to their mouths.
The young fruit of loquat is turquoise, reddish when it is mature, and it looks particularly attractive. Moreover, the consequences of loquat ripening are fragrant and sweet, and you can smell that sweetness from a distance. Such a loquat is unwilling to let go of any one.
Although this small wild fruit contains more nutrition than apples, Sydney, oranges and other fruits. After peeling, the pulp inside is a bit like a fig with honey, which makes me want to eat.
③ Torch fruit
Fire fruit, also known as fire thorn, is an evergreen shrub. When the fruit is ripe, it is covered with branches, and the red appearance is very attractive. At first glance, it is difficult to ignore its existence. A tree bears many small fruits. When I was a child, I strung them together and rolled them up the hill. I thought it was delicious at that time!
In fact, the fruit of Torch Fruit has little water and soft pulp, but the sweet and sour taste is still very charming, and there are small black seeds in it, which are crisp and delicious.
Although the fruit of torch tree is small, it bears many fruits, which is very ornamental. The red one is like a small lantern. It also has high medicinal value. Leaves can replace tea, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Roots, stems and leaves can be used as medicine, which is very good for the body.
Ye Changqing, a torch tree, has bright red fruit, which is very ornamental, so many people regard it as a potted plant, and its cause and effect are numerous and dense, so it is called "golden quantity".
④ Goat milk fruit
Goat's milk fruit is a special fruit in southwest China, and the mature fruit is bright red to purple.
Goat milk fruit tastes sweet and sour, raw and sweet, with moderate taste and sufficient water. You can also marinate it with proper amount of salt and pepper, or even make it into fruit balls, so much the better. Nowadays, goat's milk fruit is cultivated artificially, and it used to be mostly wild.
⑤ Duoyiguo
Duoyi fruit is produced by Duoyi River in Luoping, Qujing, Yunnan. Duoyi fruit is a kind of fruit, which is different from ordinary fruit and can be eaten directly. Wild Doyle fruit is as big, round and yellow as table tennis. Before maturity, it was turquoise, very sour and astringent, sour and chewy, and more appetizing. When it is ripe, its fruit is bluish yellow, sometimes it is a little orange when it is ripe, but it is still very sour. The locals call it "one more strange".
Duoyi fruit is rich in tannin and crude fiber, which is suitable for brewing. However, people in Lancang, Yunnan like to crush Duoyi fruit and mix it with various seasonings. Sour and refreshing, with a little fruit flavor, very appetizing. Nowadays, there are many fruits grafted and cultivated in Lancang and other places, and the fruits are big and sweet, which is called "sweet and interdependent".
⑥ Myrica rubra
Wild Myrica rubra is more common, except in other parts of Yunnan. Its fruit is smaller and more sour than domestic bayberry. In the past, when the fruit was not so rich, wild bayberry became the driving force for us to go up the mountain in summer, even if it was a little sour, it was particularly appetizing.
Wild bayberry can be made into sour plum soup, which is very suitable for relieving summer heat. Wild bayberry can also be used to soak wine. Before eating, a small cup will be served. The wine is rich in fragrance and bright in color, and you can enjoy it with a dish of peanuts. Wild bayberry can also be made into candied fruit. If you can't finish it when you are young, you can put it in a bottle and seal it with some sugar and cold water. After more than ten or eight days, it was particularly delicious.
⑦ Chicken gizzard
Chicken gizzards are also called mountain cover basin, wild lychee, mountain lychee and mountain loquat fruit. The appearance of the tree is umbrella-shaped, the leaves are bright, the fruit turns red in autumn, and it can stay on the tree for several months. It is the "delicious fruit" and homesickness memory of quite a few rural partners.
Don't underestimate this little fruit. It looks like litchi, but its taste is very different. Can clear away heat and toxic materials, eliminate food stagnation and kill insects, and can be used for treating dyspepsia, flatulence, hepatitis and ascariasis. Local treatment of burns, scalds, traumatic bleeding, etc. , has medicinal value.
Eight mysterious fruits
In 1960s, when Premier Zhou Enlai visited West Africa, Ghana gave this mysterious fruit to Premier Zhou as a national gift. Since then, mysterious fruits have been planted in Yunnan, China.
Mature mysterious fruit, bright red in appearance and white in interior, tastes sour, but contains a mysterious fruit protein. If you eat other acidic fruits within half an hour, the more sour you eat, the sweeter you feel, and you can turn sour into sweet, hence the name mysterious fruit.
With the passage of time, mysterious fruit has been widely planted in gardens, and it has become no longer mysterious. Those who challenged to eat lemons showed the same feeling. Now I think I can do it. As long as I eat a mysterious fruit before eating lemons, lemons will become sweet.
Pet-name ruby girl
In some places, girls' fruit is also called brocade lantern. In the past, girls' fruit grew on the roadside or in the fields, but now it is hard to find it. When we were young, we all loved to eat girls' fruit, especially boys. The older generation also lied to us: eat more girlish fruit and find an aunt when you grow up.
Ripe female fruit is sweet, and after peeling, it reveals yellow and delicate fruit, with crisp peel, rich fruit flavor, sweet and sour taste and unique flavor. It's a pity if you haven't eaten it!
Now you can buy girls' fruit in the supermarket, but it always feels a little worse than when I was a child. Maybe this is the difference between wild and cultivated! Do you like to buy girls' fruit in the supermarket?
Attending egg yolk fruit
Egg yolk is a tropical fruit, so it is called egg yolk, because its flesh is orange, which is very similar to egg yolk. Its fruit is generally oval or peach-shaped, green when immature, with smooth skin and little water. Mature egg yolk, skin and flesh are yellow, just like cooked egg yolk, which tastes sweet but not greasy.
People who have eaten locally say that it tastes like egg yolk, and the taste is soft and rustling. Its taste is between sweet potato and durian, but it has a fresh and sweet fruity taste when eaten in the mouth.
There are many wild fruits in Yunnan, and even some locals seldom eat them. Only the older generation likes them when they are doing farm work. Now the jungle is dense, and many wild fruits can't be found, but some of them have been widely circulated, such as mysterious fruits and egg-yolk fruits, which have entered the yard.